Huayu started by giving the system to female stars

Chapter 24 24. Just teasing her

"Are you going to direct this movie yourself?"

Wei Wu patted her shoulder and said, "Yes, the heroine of my debut film is now handed over to you. You must act well, otherwise you will be scolded every day on the set!"

For some reason, when Liu Tianxian heard Wei Wu say that the debut film was handed over to you, she felt that her heart was hit by a warm current, as if the whole world became brighter because of it.

For an actor, the debut film is very important. A good start is half the success. If the debut film is a great success, then the actor will have smooth sailing in the early stage; but if the debut film fails, then it will take a few more rounds of wasted time.

For a director, the importance of the debut film may be even greater. If an actor messes up his debut film, he may have a chance to start over after wasting a few years.

But if a new director messes up his debut film, he is not trusted in the first place and messes up again, and it is very likely that he will never have the opportunity to take up the director's baton again.

After all, directors generally have to accumulate qualifications and work experience step by step. Most people don’t have the opportunity to direct their first film until they are in their thirties or forties.

Even the three major directors in the mainland, they all made their debut films in their thirties. Chen Kaige is 32, Feng Xiaogang is 36, and Zhang Yimou is 37.

Employment pressure is high, and there is little room for trial and error. Even for successful and famous directors, a failure may make them fall from the altar and lose their reputation, or even be forced to retire.

Wei Wu is talented and skilled. He obviously has many choices, but it is obvious that he took the risk of making this film as his debut to accommodate himself.

To be honest, even if this film fails, it will not have much impact on her. It is nothing more than two failed films turning into three failed films. She at least has a way out and can go to act in TV series.

But the impact on Wei Wu is too great, and it is even very likely that no one will ask him to make a movie in the future.

He is willing to gamble his career for her. This is the most sincere confession.

No wonder people say, don't always look at what a man says, but look at what he does for you.

Wei Wu obviously likes me to death, but he deliberately belittles me, probably because he is afraid that I will find out his little thoughts.

Humph, what a tsundere!

Others may not know how good Wei Wu's directing skills are, but Liu Tianxian must know it.

This kind of campus youth love theme film is not difficult to make, and Wei Wu's level is naturally easy to make.

But the problem is that Wei Wu is not famous now, and he has no experience in directing movies independently. It is probably not so easy to become a director without working hard.

"Have you found a company willing to invest? Do they agree to let you be a director?"

"I haven't tried, because I know it's a waste of time to try," Wei Wu pointed at himself and said:

"Now there is no way that any film company would be willing to let a 21-year-old directing student who has not yet graduated direct a feature film, unless the boss of that company is my dad."

"Then what are you going to do?"

Wei Wu spread his hands and said: "What else can I do? Invest on my own! I am the boss of my own territory, I can use whoever I want, who can control me?"

Although Liu Tianxian has already faintly Yueyue guessed it, but was still a little surprised:

"But investing in movies is very risky, and besides... do you have so much money?"

Wei Wu immediately acted up, sighed and said:

"You know, my family is not very well off. My parents do have 200,000 or 300,000 in savings, but this money is for me to get married and buy a house after graduation."

Liu Tianxian was also a little discouraged: "That's a bit too much! Besides, since it's the money your uncle and aunt prepared for you to buy a wedding house, they probably won't agree to let you use it to make a movie, right?

"But I can help you get some money."

Wei Wu was interested: "Oh, how much can you get?"

Liu Tianxian thought for a while and said: "It can't be too much, at most one or two million, and my mother will definitely not agree to more. ”

It is possible that she was from a wealthy family and young, so she did not attach much importance to money; it is also possible that it was too easy to make money as a star, so she did not take money seriously, and she just promised one or two million yuan so easily.

Wei Wu certainly knew that Liu Tianxian must have done her best to pay one or two million yuan at a time.

Many people may have misunderstandings, thinking that Liu Tianxian was very popular at that time and must be able to make a lot of money.

In fact, it was not the case. Although she was already a quasi-first-line star at that time, because she had only been popular for less than two years, her salary had not increased much. Moreover, the salary of female actors was much lower than that of male actors of the same level.

Of course there are Another reason is that the overall environment is not good. At this time, the Chinese film and television industry is in its infancy, and the pay of all domestic actors is not high.

The ones with higher pay are those Hong Kong and Taiwan stars. After all, it is easier for foreign monks to chant sutras!

Take the "The Return of the Condor Heroes" that Liu Tianxian is currently filming. It was filmed from October 2004 to the end of April 2005, not counting the reshoots. The filming time was as long as 6 and a half months. However, the total pay for 40 episodes was less than 300,000 yuan, which is less than 8,000 yuan per episode.

Not to mention the pay for movies. First, she is still a newcomer in the film industry, and the box office of the first two films was less than 1 million yuan. At present, the pay is no more than 200,000 yuan at most.

But fortunately, she has an outstanding image, so she is still favored by some advertisers, and she has earned a lot of endorsement fees and advertising fees.

Through the statistics of the Forbes Celebrity List, we can roughly estimate her income in the past three years:

In 2003, she just entered the industry for a year and was not on the list. Her income was less than 1 million (because the TOP100 of the list is 1 million), in 2004, she earned 4.8 million and ranked 58th, and in 2005, she earned 4.5 million and ranked 51st.

2002 can be basically ignored, because that year she just entered the industry and filmed a movie "The Golden Age" as a supporting role. The salary was not much, and she was not famous at that time, so naturally she didn't have much other income.

Then add up 2002 and 2003 and calculate it as 1 million. It may not be reached, but it should not be too different.

That is to say, as of this year, Liu Tianxian's total income since entering the industry is about 10 million. Then she has to pay about 40% tax, and she only has about 6 million in her hands.

Then the money has to be taken from the agency, and the clothes for attending events (branded clothes and bags, renting jewelry), entertaining guests, media travel expenses and public relations fees, makeup and styling... These fixed expenses alone cost millions a year.

In the end, she probably only has two or three million left, and she certainly can't take it all out at once. She has to keep hundreds of thousands for emergencies and daily expenses, so getting 2 million is definitely the best she can do.

Of course, she agreed generously, but she is not yet an adult! The money she said may not count, and she probably can't move it without Liu Xiaoli's approval.

If it was tens of thousands of yuan, it would be fine, but one or two million is equivalent to emptying Liu Tianxian's savings in the past few years.

And it sounds like an investment movie that is very unreliable, so Liu Xiaoli would be crazy if she knew it.

You have to know that Liu Xiaoli's dissatisfaction with Wei Wu is almost overflowing now, and she must not be given such a big stimulus at this time, otherwise she will really fight him to the death.

Liu Xiaoli was already very worried. Wei Wu approached Liu Tianxian to cheat her out of money. Now that his true intentions were exposed, why didn't he fight to the death?

To be honest, even if Liu Tianxian told Liu Xiaoli "I'm pregnant" at this time, it would be better than "I want to lend 2 million to Wei Wu".

After all, the former is a fixed loss that has been basically determined. Liu Xiaoli is of course heartbroken, but she has made certain psychological preparations.

Since the person has gone astray and cannot be redeemed, the money must not be cheated away again, otherwise both the person and the money will be lost.

So Wei Wu naturally did not plan to take Liu Tianxian's money, and was just teasing her.